Edinote

Edinote is a web-based note taking application. It aims to be simple and fast, while still providing some nice features like tagging and markdown support, and an easy setup for your own web server.

Features

• Self-hosted: data stays on your own server
• Open Source
• Easy, lightweight installation
• Simple, quick file management
• Instant file search
• Tag support
• Formatted Markdown view option
• Syntax highlighting
• Keyboard shortcuts
• Note storage as text files for simple backup
• Mobile usability
• Multi-user support
• A real good text editor (Ace)
• no WYSIWYG - it's Markdown ;)

Demo

Log in with credentials 'demo' / 'demo' at demo.edinote.org. Please note that new files are erased every 30 minutes in the demo.

Installation

Prerequisites

Edinote runs with a standard Apache or Nginx + PHP setup. PHP is tested for versions from 5.5 up to 7.0.

As its database, Edinote comes with SQLite per default, so the below instructions are also for using it with SQLite. Installation setup for usage with MySQL is in development.

For example, to get started on Ubuntu 16.04 with Apache, you can use the following installation command:

sudo apt-get update && apt-get install apache2 php libapache2-mod-php php-sqlite3

SQLite support may be disabled by default. Enable it by uncommenting the following line in /etc/php/7.0/apache2/php.ini:

extension=php_pdo_sqlite.dll

You can use a simple standard vhost like the Apache example below. For production however, you should use SSL/HTTPS, for example with a certificate from letsencrypt.

<VirtualHost *:80>

	ServerName edinote.example.com
	DocumentRoot /var/www/edinote.example.com/public

	ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/edinote.example.com-error.log
	CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/edinote.example.com-access.log combined

</VirtualHost>

Install

To install Edinote, choose the latest release, download and unpack it in your web server document root (for example, /var/www/ on Ubuntu):

cd /var/www/
sudo wget https://github.com/haeringer/edinote/archive/vX.X.X.tar.gz
sudo tar xf vX.X.X.tar.gz

Rename the unpacked directory to the name you configured in the web server vhost:

sudo mv edinote-X.X.X edinote.example.com

Grant the web server user (for example, 'www-data' on Ubuntu) owner permissions on the Edinote data directory:

sudo chown -R www-data:www-data edinote.example.com/data

After installation, restart your web server (e.g. service apache2 restart on Ubuntu) and login as user 'admin' with password 'edinote'. After login, change the default password in the user settings.

Move the data directory (recommended)

In production environments, it is recommended to place the data directory outside of the web server document root, for example on an external storage or at /var/lib/:

sudo mkdir /var/lib/edinote
sudo mv edinote.example.com/data /var/lib/edinote/

Change the DATADIR path in the Edinote configuration:

sudo vi edinote.example.com/includes/constants.php
define("DATADIR", "/var/lib/edinote/data/");

Data Import

If you already have a bunch of text files that you'd like to import into Edinote, you can just copy those files into the data directory of your user (e.g. into data/admin/) and Edinote will read them in, updating the database automatically at page reload.

License

Copyright (c) 2015 Ben Haeringer (MIT License)

See LICENSE.txt for more info.